Partners
Here at the Milk Bank @ Chester we aim to work collaboratively with a wide range of organisations. As well as working closely with the neonatal units we supply and with other local milk banks we also work closely with the following partners:
Blood Bike Services
- Home (gmbb.org.uk)
- Blood Bikes Wales
- Bloodfast
- East Midlands Freewheelers
- Merseyside and Cheshire Blood Bikes
- Shropshire Staffordshire and Cheshire Blood Bikes
- Northwest Blood Bikes Lancashire and Lakes
Charity Partners
DF Capital partners with The Milk Bank at Chester Hospital | DF Capital
Research and Development
Charities
- Beyond Bea
- Claire House Children’s Hospice
- Forget Me Not Child Hospice
- Our Sam Baby Loss charity
- UKAMB (UK Association for Milk Banking)
NHS Networks
- BAPM (British Association of Perinatal Medicine) – members of working groups for Lactation and Loss and Donor Human Milk
- N3 Neonatal Nutrition Network
- Neonatal Palliative Care Network
- North West Neonatal Operational Delivery Network
- Yorkshire and Humber Neonatal Operational Delivery Network
UK Memory Milk Gift partner milk banks
- Milk Bank Scotland
- Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Hospital Milk Bank
- Calderdale and Huddersfield Donor Breast Milk Bank
- Cambridge Milk Bank
- Hearts Milk Bank (Hertfordshire)
- Oxford Milk Bank
- St George’s Hospital Milk Bank (London)
- Southampton Human Milk Bank
- Western Trust Milk Bank (Ireland)
International Memory Milk Gift partner milk banks
- Ottawa Milk Bank (in development)
Commercial Companies
- Ardo Medical offer breast pump hire at reduced cost for bereaved families (funded by donations made to our charitable fund on Just Giving)
- Gousto supply ice packs for donors free of charge